I haven't tried these out yet but I created word searches to match my first couple of word sorts this year. The idea is that some students will finish the high quality activity early and they can use the word search as a fun way to fill in a few minutes at the end of a spelling session. As these word searches match the word sorts from the Words Their Way books they are labelled here accordingly.
Letter Name-Alphabetic Word Searches
Within Word Pattern Word Searches